What Types Of Conflict Are Good For Democracies?

Criminals are trading copies of prized Australian passports on one of the dark web's largest marketplaces for less than the price of two schooners of beer.

The unnamed trading market, which was investigated by cybersecurity company NordVPN, has illegally sold hundreds of thousands of items or pieces of data worth more than $23 million since it was launched on the dark web, researchers said.

Scanned copies of Australian passports were listed at just $16.50, driving licences traded for $48 and mobile phone numbers and emails with log-ins little more than $13.

Real scans of actual passports are common on dark web marketplaces, while less spotted forgeries of passports can trade north of $1500.

Dark web market hawking valuable Aussie IDs for handful of dollars

PROF. JACOBSON:  I’m So Old, I Remember The Attempted Assassination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh: The Democrat political and media non-reactions to the attempted assassination of Justice Kavanaugh make it more likely targeted political violence will return.

Well, you know, they want targeted political violence aimed at their enemies.

The IRS has released its “Dirty Dozen” tax avoidance and fraud list for 2022, consisting of heavily promoted transactions likely to attract IRS scrutiny, consumer-focused fraud, and activities targeting high-net-worth individuals.

IRS US Completes Its 2022 ‘Dirty Dozen’ Tax Avoidance And Fraud List

UK Figures on benefit and tax fraud investigators misrepresented

A horse seized in a tax fraud case was sold back to its owner after authorities realized how much it cost to look after: report

Bikie charged for $40K in tap and go fraud

Watergate 50th meets Jan. 6. Common thread: Thirst for power

Poverty can happen to anyone at any time – it’s in my every waking and sleeping thought

McDonald's agrees to pay France $1.3 billion to settle a case accusing it of tax evasion over a 10-year period

Dan Stone, Harvard-led Citation Cartel Rakes in Millions from Bluebook Manual Monopoly, Masks Profits:

According to the financial statements of the Harvard Law Review, 12 the Bluebook’s net profits were $1.2 million in 2020 and totaled $16.0 million in the ten years between 2011 and 2020. ...

Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan; Google Scholar) & Mohanad Salaimi (S.J.D. 2022, Michigan), A New Framework for Taxing Cryptocurrencies, 175 Tax Notes Fed. 1391 (May 30, 2022):

In this article, Avi-Yonah and Salaimi propose a new framework for taxing cryptocurrency throughout its life cycle. This article summarizes Avi-Yonah and Salaimi, A New Framework for Taxing Cryptocurrencies (Mar. 31, 2022).

Most writers are not good talkers. But more and more, their lives involve not so much writing as talking 

The Human Brain Runs Way Hotter Than We Ever Realized, Scientists Find.

Biggest Rail Strike in 30 Years Brings UK to Standstill Reuters

What Types Of Conflict Are Good For Democracies?

In order to live together, and to acknowledge each other and engage each other in a democratic society, conflict is necessary. Otherwise, we risk "not just forms of suppression but also extermination, expelling and annihilating those who are viewed as the source of conflict." - Aeon

Have We Run Out Of Useful Lessons From History?

It sure feels like that sometimes. But "if nothing ever changes, then we are all locked inside the iron cage of the present tense. ... There’s no agency. No choice." - LitHub

Make Use Of: “Whether you have the strongest or weakest passwords, countless scenarios can leak your password online. It could be a data breach, or you accidentally shared your credentials with a malicious actor through a phishing website. But how do you tell if your password has been hacked? And what are some of the easiest ways to find that? Here, we share some of the most effortless methods through which you can check if your password has ever leaked online…”

Is Life Random Or Not?

Some physicists bat it around, with the help of art: "We meet up, sometimes over a drink, to exchange ideas and share our latest musings in cosmology or molecular biology. We have often stayed up late talking while listening to our favourite jazz or flamenco musicians." - New Scientist

Invasive Green Crabs Turned Into Whiskey By Tamworth Distilling Forbes 

Post-Lehman Path Makes a Case for Buying the Rout John Authers, Bloomberg

Ever Given insurance claims could exceed US$2 billion Container News

Musk offers billion-user vision but few details to Twitter staff Agence France Presse

Leaked Internal Slack Messages Show Twitter Employees Reaction to Elon Musk’s #TwitterAllHands Call (video) Project Veritas